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Yes, this would certainly be the wrong way of looking at or doing things. Perhaps some of these people really had a good experience with God at the beginning of their walk but they started learning things [even things from the Bible] and away they went along their own way leaving God's Way well...

Oh yes, you are very correct. I remember catching myself after perfecting my effort to say Hail Mary's and Our Father's super fast to accomplish the letter of what the priest gave me for penance after confession with minimal of what I thought was my time. Once I caught it, my efforts at penance...

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No argument! I understand your point very well, but sometimes others do not and clarification may be helpful.

But... in spite of the truth in your words, sometimes God will speak through the seemingly most unexpected vessels. Consider Balaam's donkey [Numbers chapter 22] and also the high priest (who also conspired to have Jesus killed) in the time when Jesus walked among us in his flesh [John 11:50]. I...

I was as perfect a Catholic as I could be from age 6 until I graduated from high school. I never felt enslaved when I was there. I never missed mass on Sundays and attended mass all holidays and many other days. I served as an altar boy at every opportunity. These were my "works" then, I guess...

The authority to settle the difference belongs to God. Man has tried to usurp the authority and to insert his own judgments, but those are at best temporal even though will be quite painful to some. God already made the decision.

God's Word has not changed, even if people's ways have changed. Really I don't believe that the hearts of people have ever changed much with the exception of a few believers who allowed themselves to be changed by God. There needs to be brothers and sisters who resolve any differences among...

This is not an evil response. You are simply quoting what Jesus said. Others might scoff at you, but at worst you are the messenger of the moment. If your message is to do what is needed to obey his words, I am with you. Impossible, not for God it isn't. Most everyone looks at their weaknesses...

It is a familiar theme probably in too many places. It is good that the pastor is gone from there.

People really get what they ask for. The children of Israel pressed for a King, even though the prophet Samuel was strong against it and he really was on God's side. God gave them what they wanted because they insisted. Very likely the problem of your pastor began a long time before you were...

No, my point was that some very sincere people who love God still do not even read long and complex writings. They already live their beliefs as they can without getting into the more complex details. This doesn't make them wrong or rejecting. We need to remember how wise Solomon really was when...

The problem many non-tongue talkers is that too many tongue talkers continue to babble as a baby babbles. This to me means the person got to the milk point with God and never proceeded to the meat. Consider the flesh and blood human baby who at the first only babbles, making noises that no one...

Perhaps it is simply the love thereof? "For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." I Tim 6:10

One that is subject to and very much like the Head. For this reason we read: "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." I John 3:2 And also... "But speaking...

And thus you have made my point, right?

The article says that 70% of funding for the schools comes from the state. That should make no difference since the private school people also pay taxes, but how much control we have over those who make and enforce the laws? If the government chooses to cut off that 70% what would happen? People...

In nearly every case we read in man's histories of people being persecuted there really is unfair discrimination. We have read about it but now it is coming in our direction. We are used to being apart from the brunt of it or even in another country, but now it is knocking on our door. In time...

Yes indeed! As I see it the Bible is the dead unresurrected carcass. It has potential but until it is quickened it is Jesus hanging dead on the cross before he arose from the dead. The secret ingredient to Life is not a secret, but rather it is the Holy Spirit [the quickening Spirit] for you and...

This is why the only one we can always trust is God. It is good to see someone take a stand, but so many battles have been lost because too many want the ungodly changes and too many who supposedly are godly are, as I see it, effectively also against God. The end is not yet, but... hold on as...